The sun was shining, but the temperature was slowly dropping, Zheng Zhi wore a fox fur sewn by Xu with Jin Cuilian and Master Li, and sat on the platform to watch the soldiers practice. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The recruits in Cangzhou were all five big and three thick, walking back and forth in the queue, shouting passwords. There was also shouting and scolding from the instructors everywhere.

The old soldiers galloped back and forth on horseback, and the formation was properly drilled. After that, it was a hundred-step target shooting, and there was applause for a while, praising the shooter's superb archery skills. For a while, the audience was full of shouting, laughing at who shot shit.

Zheng Zhi looked at the old nonsense who was an archery instructor and scolded him with a smile on his face.

"Quack... The voice came, Zheng Zhi looked up, and saw a line of geese flying from north to south in a row with the word "human", and he knew in his heart that it was going to be winter, and the geese were going to the south for the winter.

Suddenly, I saw Lao Hu shouting: "Get on the horse, hurry!" ”

Many soldiers who were shooting targets went straight to the stables not far away, Zheng Zhi looked up at the group of geese again, and he didn't know what Lao Hu's idea was, so he got up and shouted: "Quickly move the bed crossbow out." ”

The soldiers on the left and right went straight to the rear storehouse.

Lao Hu took more than 100 horses to the gate of the school field, and waited for the geese to fly overhead, and then chased and shot.

After a while, the bed crossbows on one side were also moved to the school ground, and there were seven or eight of them, and these bed crossbows were also brought from Weizhou. Everyone hurriedly assembled the bed crossbows and smashed them with a clanging sound.

Zheng Zhi also got off the stage, looked up at the sky, I don't know how long I have seen such geese, and it seems that I have seen it once in my previous life.

The bowstring in the distance continued to tighten, Zheng Zhi saw the approaching geese, said goodbye to the bed crossbow that was still being assembled, and scolded with a smile: "Niu Da, you fool, why is this movement so slow now?" If you don't fight, you're rusty with the ability to eat? ”

Niu Da shook the winch and replied: "Official, it's really rusty and in a hurry." When I was in Western Xia, it was enough to pretend to be such a thing for a while. ”

As he spoke, the bed crossbow was also loaded with huge feather arrows, and several people hurriedly lifted the bed crossbow and erected it to the sky.

Zheng Zhi walked a few steps closer to the side of a bed crossbow, held the treasure knife from Luda in his hand, and said, "A certain wild goose will be shown to you." ”

Luda complained on the side: "Brother, if you take away the knife of the Sprinkle family, the Sprinkle family will not be able to shoot." ”

Zheng Zhi turned his head and smiled at Luda, and only said, "Your archery skills are too poor." ”

Luda was naturally unconvinced, so he said: "Brother, the shooting skills of the Sprinkler family are much better than yours." ”

Luda told the truth, but Zheng Zhi, who was holding the knife, didn't pay attention to it.

The giant bed crossbow is different from the hand crossbow, there is no circlip trigger, and the three bowstrings are good, that is, the bowstring is tied to the crossbow tail with a rope, and if it is to be fired, the rope is directly cut with a knife in an instant. It's cumbersome, but it's powerful.

Of course, there are also small bed crossbows with triggers, which is actually the principle of three crossbows tied in one place, and the power is naturally much less.

No matter what kind of crossbow, it represents the top level of craftsmanship in the Song Dynasty. The production process and composite materials of the crossbow arm are also extremely complex, the crossbow arm from the material, soaked in water to dry, polished and formed, baked and soaked in oil, and then to the shape of a year, there are also horn pieces sandwiched inside, bonded with animal glue, cow tendon dried and mashed, kneaded into strings. From the beginning of the production to the completion of a good crossbow, the time span is more than two years.

The wild goose had already arrived directly above the school field, Zheng Zhi continued to command the several people carrying the crossbow to aim back and forth, seeing the opportunity, the treasure knife in his hand cut to the fixed rope, very decisive.

The feather arrows rose into the air, and the huge feather arrows flew into the sky in an instant, heading straight for the geese, Zheng Zhi looked at the sky with an expectant face, and the bed crossbows around him were also launched one after another, but none of the geese landed, but he saw several huge feather arrows flying down.

Zheng Zhi hurriedly ran to the side for more than a dozen steps, and shouted with a smile: "Be careful, don't be hit by arrows." ”

Everyone put down their crossbows and ran away, laughing all over their faces. Not everyone has the ability to shoot two horses with one arrow from two or three hundred steps away like Lao Hu, but they all think that shooting geese like this is really interesting.

When seven or eight huge arrows fell, everyone dodged in all directions, laughing while dodging, and if the arrows fell and hit someone, they would not die or be seriously injured, but everyone was happy.

Look at the gate of the school field again, hundreds of horses galloped up, but did not shoot with their hands, and ran straight to a hill a few miles away to the south, the geese flew too high, and the flat ground went to shoot, and the crossbow was obviously not reached, only on the high place of the hill, there was a chance.

Zheng Zhi smiled and turned his head, and didn't care about Lao Hu who ran out to shoot geese, and probably felt that Lao Hu couldn't shoot geese, and generally shot geese, but also waited until the geese landed to rest, or when the geese were foraging, and wanted to shoot down this kind of migrating geese, and the crossbow was still less powerful.

"Niu Da, you fool, you will move this bed crossbow out and fiddle with it if you have nothing to do in the future, you are really unfamiliar." Zheng Zhi scolded with a smile again.

"Official, I know, I will fiddle more in the future, I am afraid that it will be damaged, we have brought more than 30 bodies from Weizhou in total, but the baby is tight." Niu Da replied.

Niu Da's words reminded Zheng Zhi that ordnance building is not just a blacksmith, and special talents are really needed, just like this bed crossbow and the ladder car for attacking the city, without this talent, it really can't be built.

Niu Da led everyone to disassemble the bed crossbow, wrapped it in tung oil paper, and slowly moved it to the warehouse.

Zheng Zhi also followed everyone to the warehouse, the warehouse is not small, Zheng Zhi just arrived at the door of the warehouse, he smelled a musty smell, and looked inside, there were things piled up everywhere.

Cangzhou was originally also an important frontier town, and the armory was naturally not small, and there were many things, but after so many years, no one took this armory seriously.

"Da Lang, go and call more people, clean up this warehouse, throw away all the useless, and put it here as a real obstacle." Zheng Zhi said to Shi Jin beside him. No one has cleaned this storehouse for many years.

After the people put their crossbows on their beds, they began to carry out the tattered ordnance.

Most of them are rotten wood, some of which can still be seen as something, and some of which are already rotten wood.

Zheng Zhi shook his head again and again, Cangzhou is like this, I am afraid that most of the Hejian Mansion, the Daimyo Mansion, and even Tokyo City are also like this.

The Great Song Dynasty is this Great Song Dynasty, the capital of the Central Plains without a war for a hundred years, living comfortably, the scholars study hard to test their fame, the hard work of farming, the traders go out early and return late, if there is no foreign enemy, it is really a peaceful and prosperous era. Swords and guns are put into storage, horses are put in Nanshan, economic development, and political enlightenment.

There are more virtuous ministers such as Bao Zheng, Wang Anshi, Fan Zhongyan, Sima Guang, and more good emperors like Zhao Ji's father Song Shenzong, which is really a prosperous age.

Many soldiers were sweating profusely, and the debris they had cleaned up was piled up all over the ground, but there was no valuable thing, and occasionally a few rusty gun heads and other metal things could be cleared.

Seeing that Zheng Zhi also laughed again and again, he was a bit of a fish that slipped through the net, and he was not sold out.

In the end, Niu Da and one person worked together to move out a small clay pottery jar.

Ruda was also curious, picked up the treasure knife, stepped forward to stab the sealing mud on it, and opened the clay lid, and the jar was full of black powder.

Luda immediately grabbed a handful and put it in his hand, and asked suspiciously, "Brother, what is this?" It's also very well packaged. ”